Over at Game|Life, they're calling a halt to incompetent hardware hacks. It's about time, too—while we at Gadget Lab love our hand-made technological wonders, the end result actually must be wondrous to qualify.

Ryan Singel spies constitutional treachery: Warrantless spying is now warranted spying, with the warrants handed out by a secret court. I remember a time when people talked about how 1970s South America would become like the U.S.A., not the other way round.